Waging war on the government of American banks in the global South, 1890s to 1920s

Forgotten workers of America : racial capitalism and the war on the working class, 1890s to 1940s

Emancipatory internationalism vs. the American Century,

1945 to 1960s

El gran paro Estadounidense : the rebirth of the American working class, 1970s to the present

Epilogue. A new origin narrative of American history.

"Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms US history into one of the working class organizing against imperialism. Drawing on rich narratives and primary source documents, Ortiz links racial segregation in the Southwest and the rise and violent fall of a powerful tradition of Mexican labor organizing in the twentieth century, to May 1, 2006, known as International Workers' Day, when migrant laborers--Chicana/os, Afrocubanos, and immigrants from every continent on earth--united in resistance on the first "Day Without Immigrants." As African American civil rights activists fought against Jim Crow laws and Mexican labor organizers warred against the suffocating grip of capitalism, Black and Spanish-language newspapers, abolitionists, and Latin American revolutionaries coalesced around movements built between people from the United States and people from Central America and the Caribbean. And in stark contrast to the resurgence of "America first" rhetoric, Black and Latinx intellectuals and organizers today have urged the United States to build bridges of solidarity with the nations of the America. Incisive and timely, this bottom-up history, told from the interconnected vantage points of Latinx and African Americas, reveals the radically different ways that people of the diaspora have addressed issues still plaguing the United States today, and it offers a way forward in the continued struggle for universal civil rights."--Dust jacket.

A searching re-examination of the assumptions, and the evidence for and against, current approaches to issues of economic and other disparities Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation or genetics. It is readable enough for people with no prior knowledge of economics. Yet the empirical evidence with which it backs up its analysis spans the globe and challenges beliefs across the ideological spectrum. The point of Discrimination and Disparities is not to recommend some particular policy "fix" at the end, but to clarify why so many policy fixes have turned out to be counterproductive, and to expose some seemingly invincible fallacies behind many counterproductive policies. The final chapter deals with social visions and their human consequences. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781541645608 20180508

Part 1: The Legal Categories of Straits â 1â Interpretation of the Legal Categories of Straits under the losc â 2â The Legal Regimes of Historic Straits, Ice-covered Straits and Sui Generis Straits â 3â The Determinants of the Legal Categories of Straits

Part 2: The Significance of Maritime Boundary Delimitation for the Legal Regime of the Estonian Straits

1 The Estonian-Russian Territorial Sea Boundary Delimitation in the Gulf of Finland â 1â The Maritime Area in the Gulf of Finland Subject to Delimitation between Estonia and the Russian Federation â 2â Pre-existing Agreements Pertaining to the Delimitation of the Maritime Area â 3â Estonian-Russian Negotiations on the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Finland â 4â Delimitation of the Territorial Sea by the Equidistance-Special Circumstances Rule â 5â The Significance of Islands for the Maritime Boundary Delimitation and for the Viro Strait's Legal Regime

2 The Boundary Delimitation between Finland and the Soviet Union in the Gulf of Finland â

1 emsp--The Existence of the Russian eez in the Gulf of Finland â

2 emsp--The Acknowledgment of the Existence of the Russian eez in the Gulf of Finland

3 The Estonian-Latvian Boundary Delimitation in the Gulf of Riga â 1â The Estonian-Latvian Negotiations on the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Riga â 2â Pre-existing Agreements Pertaining to the Delimitation of the Maritime Area â 3â Pre-Existing Agreements on the Status of Ruhnu Island â 4â The Status of Ruhnu Island under Article 7(1) of the losc â 5â Delimitation in the Gulf of Riga â 6â The eez in the Gulf of Riga

Part 3: The Significance of the Outer Limits of Maritime Zones for the Legal Regime of the Estonian Straits

1 The Irbe Strait in the Gulf of Riga â 1â The Characteristics of the Irbe Strait â 2â Straits of the Gulf of Riga Linking Two Parts of an eez â 3â The Domestic Law of Estonia and Latvia on the Passage Rights of Warships and Other Foreign Vessels Used for National Non-commercial Purposes â 4â The Legal Framework Applicable to the Irbe Strait â 5â The Legal Framework Applicable to the Irbe Strait de lege ferenda

2 The Viro Strait in the Gulf of Finland â 1â The Characteristics of the Viro Strait â 2â The

1994 Agreement on the eez Corridor in the Gulf of Finland and Its Impact on the Domestic Legislation of Estonia and Finland â 3â The eez Corridor in the Viro Strait under Articles 35(b) and

36 of the losc â 4â The Viro Strait in the Context of a Potential Transit Passage Regime

Part 4: The Significance of Long-Standing Treaties and the Legal Regime of Sui Generis Straits for the Viro Strait â 1â The Legal Framework of the Viro Strait under Previous International Agreements â 2â The Estonian Supreme Court's

1932 Interpretation of the Purpose of the

1925 Treaty between Estonia, Finland and the Soviet Union â 3â The Soviet Union's Reaction to the

1932 Judgment and the Following Decision of the Estonian Government on the Freedom of Navigation in the Gulf of Finland â 4â The Legal Effect of the

1925 and

1926 Trilateral Treaties from

1940 to

1991 â 5â The Relationship of the

1994 Agreement on the eez Corridor to the

1925 and

1926 Trilateral Treaties Prior to Finland's

2010 Withdrawal â 6â The Termination of the

1925 and

1926 Trilateral Treaties

Part 5: The Significance Of Domestic Law On the Internal Waters and State Continuity for the Legal Regime of the Sea of Straits â 1â The Characteristics of the Sea of Straits â 2â The Sea of Straits under the Potential Regime of Transit Passage â 3â The Domestic Law of Estonia on Passage Rights in the Sea of Straits â 4â The Sea of Straits as Non-international Straits â 5â The Applicability of the Messina Exception to the Sea of Straits Conclusion â Aâ The Legal Categories of Straits and Their Interrelationship â Bâ The Significance of Outer Limits of Maritime Zones for the Legal Regime of the Estonian Straits â Câ The Significance of Long-standing International Conventions and Sui Generis Passage Regimes for the Estonian Straits â Dâ The Significance of Islands and Domestic Law on the Internal Waters for the Legal Regime of the Estonian Straits â Eâ The Significance of Maritime Boundary Delimitation and State Continuity for the Legal Regime of the Estonian Straits Annex

1. Maps â 1â The eez Corridor in the Gulf of Finland â 2â The high seas corridor in the Gulf of Finland under the

1925 and

1926 agreements â 3â The 3-nm-wide territorial sea of Estonia in

1923 â 4â The 12-nm-wide maritime zone of Estonia in

1923 â 5â The maritime boundary between Estonia and Latvia â 6â Latvia's eez and the potential eez corridor in the Gulf of Riga â 7â The Russian federation's eez in the Gulf of Finland â 8â Maritime boundary between Estonia and the Russian federation Annex

2. Historical Treaties â 1â The

1925 Helsinki Convention for the Suppression of the Contraband Traffic in Alcoholic Liquors and its Protocol â 2â The

1925 Helsinki Agreement between Estonia, Finland and the Soviet Union â 3â The

In The Estonian Straits, Alexander Lott establishes the interrelations between the main legal categories of straits. Through this detailed and exceptional account, he provides legal classifications for the Viro Strait in the Gulf of Finland as well as the Irbe Strait and the Sea of Straits in the Gulf of Riga. Consequently, the passage rights of foreign ships and aircrafts in the northeastern part of the Baltic Sea are determined. The author demonstrates that the legal regime of the Estonian Straits has been and continues to be determined by such factors as the outer limits of maritime zones, treaties, islands, maritime boundary delimitation, domestic law on internal waters and baselines as well as geopolitical implications (particularly the concept of State continuity). (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9789004363861 20180514

Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book, Little Man, Little Man celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood. Now available for the first time in forty years, this new edition of Little Man, Little Man-which retains the charming original illustrations by French artist Yoran Cazac-includes a foreword by Baldwin's nephew Tejan "TJ" Karefa-Smart and an afterword by his niece Aisha Karefa-Smart, with an introduction by two Baldwin scholars. In it we not only see life in 1970s Harlem from a black child's perspective, but we also gain a fuller appreciation of the genius of one of America's greatest writers. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781478000044 20180924

How solar could spark a clean-energy transition through transformative innovation-creative financing, revolutionary technologies, and flexible energy systems. Solar energy, once a niche application for a limited market, has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What's more, its potential is nearly limitless-every hour the sun beams down more energy than the world uses in a year. But in Taming the Sun, energy expert Varun Sivaram warns that the world is not yet equipped to harness erratic sunshine to meet most of its energy needs. And if solar's current surge peters out, prospects for replacing fossil fuels and averting catastrophic climate change will dim. Innovation can brighten those prospects, Sivaram explains, drawing on firsthand experience and original research spanning science, business, and government. Financial innovation is already enticing deep-pocketed investors to fund solar projects around the world, from the sunniest deserts to the poorest villages. Technological innovation could replace today's solar panels with coatings as cheap as paint and employ artificial photosynthesis to store intermittent sunshine as convenient fuels. And systemic innovation could add flexibility to the world's power grids and other energy systems so they can dependably channel the sun's unreliable energy. Unleashing all this innovation will require visionary public policy: funding researchers developing next-generation solar technologies, refashioning energy systems and economic markets, and putting together a diverse clean energy portfolio. Although solar can't power the planet by itself, it can be the centerpiece of a global clean energy revolution. A Council on Foreign Relations Book. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780262037686 20180521

"We have a powerful instrument" : Rights unionism and the cold war, 1957-1963

"Northern ghettos are the prisons of forgotten men" : Labor and civil rights at the crossroads, 1964-1966

"In God's economy" : Organizing the Poor People's Campaign, 1967-1968

"All labor has dignity" : Uprising of the working poor,

1968

"Dangerous unselfishness."

Drawing on a new generation of scholarship about the civil rights era in America, To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King as an advocate of racial harmony to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class, and his call for "non-violent resistance" to all forms of oppression, including economic injustice. Phase one of that struggle led to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. In phase two, King organised poor people and demonstrated for union rights, while seeking a "moral revolution" to replace the self-seeking individualism of the rich with an overriding concern for the common good. To the Promised Land asks us to think about what it would mean to truly fulfil King's legacy and move towards what he called "the Promised Land" in our own time. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780393651263 20180416

A comprehensive analysis of China's efforts to build and utilize soft power as a distinctive part of its foreign policy This volume examines the evolution and application of China's soft power with particular focus on various strategic initiatives such as cultural and public diplomacy, Confucius institutes, development assistance and infrastructure building, media collaborations and healthcare diplomacy. This is to emphasize cooperation and partnerships while advancing the theory of harmonious development through these initiatives across the world. Employing an alternative perspective, it analyses the strategic benefits and limitations of China's soft power policies, and compares them with similar policies by India for identifying the differences and applications. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9789386062659 20180508